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Originally Posted by Torin
Lothar5150, you're stretching pretty far comparing Saddam's regime with the Nazi's. We went to war against Germany because they were trying to take over the world.... quite a bit different I'd say.
If we did go into Iraq to "free the people", then why didn't Bush say that from the beginning? Why did he wait till his excuses turned out to be BS, before presenting the whole "free Iraq" idea?
And unregistered, no, it isn't the responsibility of the leadership to do what they personally feel is necessary and correct. It's called a democracy, not communism. If anyone was misinformed when making the decision and excuses for going into Iraq, it was Bush, not the populace. Either that, or you have to admit he was pulling the wool over everyone's head, for his own agenda.
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The BA'ATH party was modeled on the Nazi Party. Totalitarian, militant, secular aggressive toward their neighbors. Hell their officers even carried daggers. They killed almost a million Iraqis. Ok you got me...they didn't have blond hair and blue eyes.
As far as a leader making tuff calls that are not popular...read the Federalist Papers then lets talk further...there is a reason the founding fathers selected a representative government instead of a direct democracy....one word-Athens